sorry, documentation is a bit light at this point. =/ your guess is correct. if you have to monitor a network of windows machines, its hard to beat doing it with wmi. unfortunately, you cant query wmi directly from *nix (as far as i know), but you can run an nrpe service on one of your windows machines and "proxy" the checks through that machine. you only need the check_nrpe plugin on the *nix side to do this.
my project is simply a collection of plugins, plus a framework for simplifying plugin development in c# .net. i started it because i couldnt find a good replacement for the official nagios plugins for *nix, and i didnt want just a direct win32 port either, because i wanted the power of wmi for windows monitoring. i hope this helps. Trevor Warren wrote: > Hello Mike, > > You indeed have an interesting project here. Was trying to find > documentation towards understanding how it works but couldnt make any > progress. Am guessing......, > > You configure a service on the nagios box to call the nagiosnt plugin over > nrpe which can then call any other windows machine using wmi. Is this > how it > works???. > > Thanks and Regards Mike. > > Trevor > > On 8/29/06, mike conigliaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> hey guys, >> >> i recently started a project to simplify windows monitoring with >> nagios. my >> goal was to create a comprehensive set of plugins similar to the official >> nagios >> plugins for *nix, but for win32 nrpe daemons. so far, i have wmi plugins >> for >> monitoring basic performance metrics like cpu, memory, disk, swap, >> service >> state, etc. i've also written some basic snmp, tcp, and icmp plugins, so >> this >> project is not at all limited to monitoring windows machines. >> >> a very nice side effect of this project was ending up with a simple >> object >> oriented framework for writing future plugins. this has improved my >> plugin >> development time immensely. for example, its now possible for me to >> write >> a >> brand new, fully-functional wmi plugin from start-to-finish in >> literally 2 >> minutes! >> >> the project page is here: >> >> http://nagiospluginsnt.getproactivenow.com >> >> i hope someone out there finds this stuff useful, and im interested in >> any >> feedback you might have. >> >> -- >> Mike Conigliaro >> ProActive Technologies >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 203.239.0440 ext:317 >> www.getproactivenow.com >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job >> easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache >> Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> Nagios-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when >> reporting any issue. >> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
